Erin Harrington

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film

Gynaehorror

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of 'gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror. Some of the topics include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion; reproductive technologies, monstrosity and 'mad science'; the discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood; and the relationships between menopause, menstruation, hagsploitation and 'abject barren' bodies in horror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781472467294
• ISBN-10: 1472467299
• Artikelnr.: 48992751

Autorenporträt

Erin Harrington is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: mapping the gynaehorrific imaginary
Defining gynaehorror
Gynaehorror from virginity to menopause
Gynaehorror in context
Gynaehorror as convention and challenge
1. Roses and thorns: virgins, vagina dentata, and the monstrosity of female
sexuality
Defining virginity
Virginity in horror film
The virgin's other: vagina dentata
Imag(in)ing the vagina
Vagina dentata in horror
A different sort of Teeth: reframing vagina dentata
Heteronormative horrors
2. The lady vanishes: pregnancy, abortion and subjectivity
Framing pregnant subjectivity
Keeping house: female corporeality in horror
Home invasions
Vessels and environments
Foetal visibility and the dissolution of the female subject
Inside: competing subjects
Abortion and taboo
'Pro-life' and Pro-life
3. Not of woman born: mad science, reproductive technology and the
reconfiguration of the subject
Science, culture and masculinity
'Mad science' and men making life
Fearing science
Mad scientists and madwomen
Re-gendering mad science in Splice
Brave new worlds: cyborg futures and female subjectivity
4. The monstrous-maternal: negotiating discourses of motherhood
Psychoanalytic discourses of motherhood
The legacy of Mrs Bates: Norma, Thelma and Nola
Essential and ideal motherhood
Motherhood as instinct and imperative
The legal implications of transgressive motherhood
Millennial mothering and the horror of the single mother
States of Grace: competing discourses of motherhood
Monstrous motherhood
5. Living deaths, menstrual monsters and hagsploitation: horror and/of the
abject barren body
The abject barren body
Menstrual horror
The horror of menopause
Ageing women in cinema
Psychobiddies, grande dames and horrific harridans
The ageing woman as (American) horror story
Afterword: monstrous miscarriages and uncanny births

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Introduction: mapping the gynaehorrific imaginary

Defining gynaehorror

Gynaehorror from virginity to menopause

Gynaehorror in context

Gynaehorror as convention and challenge

1. Roses and thorns: virgins, vagina dentata, and the monstrosity of female sexuality

Defining virginity

Virginity in horror film

The virgin's other: vagina dentata

Imag(in)ing the vagina

Vagina dentata in horror

A different sort of Teeth: reframing vagina dentata

Heteronormative horrors



2. The lady vanishes: pregnancy, abortion and subjectivity



Framing pregnant subjectivity

Keeping house: female corporeality in horror

Home invasions

Vessels and environments

Foetal visibility and the dissolution of the female subject



Inside: competing subjects

Abortion and taboo

'Pro-life' and Pro-life



3. Not of woman born: mad science, reproductive technology and the reconfiguration of the subject



Science, culture and masculinity

'Mad science' and men making life

Fearing science

Mad scientists and madwomen

Re-gendering mad science in Splice

Brave new worlds: cyborg futures and female subjectivity



4. The monstrous-maternal: negotiating discourses of motherhood



Psychoanalytic discourses of motherhood

The legacy of Mrs Bates: Norma, Thelma and Nola

Essential and ideal motherhood

Motherhood as instinct and imperative

The legal implications of transgressive motherhood

Millennial mothering and the horror of the single mother

States of Grace: competing discourses of motherhood

Monstrous motherhood



5. Living deaths, menstrual monsters and hagsploitation: horror and/of the abject barren body



The abject barren body

Menstrual horror

The horror of menopause

Ageing women in cinema

Psychobiddies, grande dames and horrific harridans

The ageing woman as (American) horror story



Afterword: monstrous miscarriages and uncanny births

Rezensionen

"It's a fascinating and feminist look at gynaehorror, and one that's highly recommended." - Octavia Cade, Strange Horizons

"In this illuminating and fascinating book, Erin Harrington offers an interpretive framework for a body of films that are representative of what she has termed 'gynaehorror'." - Sarah Arnold, Screening Sex

"It's a fascinating and feminist look at gynaehorror, and one that's highly recommended." - Octavia Cade, Strange Horizons

"In this illuminating and fascinating book, Erin Harrington offers an interpretive framework for a body of films that are representative of what she has termed 'gynaehorror'." - Sarah Arnold, Screening Sex